Industryweek 7534 Meg Whitman Hp
Industryweek 7534 Meg Whitman Hp
Industryweek 7534 Meg Whitman Hp
Industryweek 7534 Meg Whitman Hp
Industryweek 7534 Meg Whitman Hp

HP's CEO on Split, Workforce Reshaping: Efficiency Is Watchword

Oct. 7, 2014
Regarding layoffs, HP CEO Meg Whitman says, "I think for 2015, in terms of this restructuring, we are done," but adds, "When you split companies apart, often there is a realignment of the workforce. ... We'll see how it goes."

Hewlett-Packard's (IW 500/9) (HPQ) announcement yesterday that it is cleaving itself in two and laying off 5,000 workers in addition to the 50,000 previously announced raises myriad questions from all over the business map.

One key question is: What will the workforces of the two resulting companies look like? And that query inevitably comes coupled with an anxious corollary: Are even more layoffs coming?

Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman is playing those cards close to her vest. But if you watch her interview yesterday with CNBC, the answers appear to be: We're still figuring out what those respective workforces will look like; and yes, at some point there will be more layoffs.

Efficiency, Whitman says, is a "watchword for companies today."

"We live in a very competitive market," she says. "We have to have the leanest, most effective organization that we can have. So when we see opportunities, we obviously need to take advantage of them. It makes us stronger, and it makes us a more competitive company."

Or two.

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